King of Iron
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Iron-Lord
“You ever have so much to do that you just take a nap?”
Faction: Neutral
Super Name: Ironlord
Real Name: Ulther Eunos
Base of Operations: Finnmark
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Technophile
Relationship Status: Single.
Known Relatives: Mindith
Hair Color: Brown
Weight: 185lbs
Age: 35
Eye Color: Green
Height: 5'11
Super Power Origin: Undead [reveniens], Symbiotic Entity [Crysomallonsquamiferum Chitons/Metal Slug]
It is said that half of his body is that of a handsome man, however the other half is that of a revenir or half dead, and half alive.
Public Status: Unknown, Ex-Slave [Earned freedom]
Place of Birth: Center Earth
Known Aliases: Iron Emperor, Iron King, Iron Monarch, Iron Urchin, Iron Impaler, Death Metal, Black Metal, Doom Metal, Silver Soldier, Scarab, Puckish Rogue, Free-Spirit
Group Affiliation: Jomsviking [Past Life], Einherjar
Life long ago - Einherjar
Look(s): Shredder, Jim Caviezel, Coheed [Amory Wars], Unborn [Bloody Roar], Shrike [Hyperion], Garuda [Street Fighter Ex], SCP-076, Marco Owen [King of Thorn], Abaddon [LMS], Karl Ruperecht Kroenen [Hellboy], Lord Recluse [City of Heroes], Sarevok [Baldur's Gate]
He seems to be built like a barbarian hero from the dark ages, his face would suggest that of nobility. His body is covered in sigils and runes, along with several differences in tones due to his revenir nature. Hair is either long or kept short depending on the occasion, and his beard either flows or remain as a stubble.
At first glance he is a man with average height and somewhat optimal fitness, resembling a man living in the wilderness. Survivalist is a nice way to describe him, mountain man is another. The eyes however tell the story of a wandering soul in search for purpose.
He wore a suit made of a ferrofluid-like substance he can make weapons from. Alternate Costume.
Theme(s): Ace Combat Soundtracks
Iron-Lord is one of many stories, but most tend to be forgotten in favor of his newer tales. That of an everyman, blending in with the lukewarm even though he is violatile. What used to be a conqueror has been remolded into that of a productive member of society, the sword used to mow down front lines became a sword used to honor ceremonies. Thus is the current story of the Iron-Lord, appearing in many places of the world to offer action, sometimes even to those that do not need them. When he appears th waters will be turbulent, and the depths will rise. He is a patchwork of knowledge and experienc,e but what keeps him together is the excitement found from exploring new ways. It is his quest to be the man who has done it all. Taking his own life in the process and subverting views about his previous lifestyle, distancing from vices and taking anew. Taking into account of an interesting limiter known to many heroes as the no-kill-rule. Skills discarded and skills re-learnt throughout the years become a staple of his existence, whether it pertains to that of combat or that of housekeeping arts.
Vegetarianism comes in many forms, some eat eggs, but no other dairy products, and vegans exclude all animal products including clothing such as leather.
Protein that keeps the Revenir alive rather than the man flesh itself. Alternative to the Revenir man flesh diet – eggs and fish to supplement the protein.
Experiments initially failed on Revenir who were only given cheese and rice to eat. The Revenir died after only two weeks of study. But when the next group of Revenir were given a balanced diet of grain, fruits, and vegetables, they thrived so much it was easy to mistake them for living man.
Personality wise he fits the mold of the normal ordinary responsible person, besides the glaring difference of undeath and somewhat of a diabound he still commutes to work. Picking different places to live, if not then meeting new people to befriend. In his past life he is a viking so in this one he wishes to pick an alternative style.
Sometimes he helps senior citizens walk down the road, other times he helps take care of kittens in the animal shelters, but even then there will be time where he will eventually return to old habits. Hedge trimming, floral arrangement, then stabbing someone over the balcony.
Ulther should not be taken lightly, because of his previous lifetimes he may be slightly out of sync with today's norms and values. He will at times 'correct' those he sees that violate his code, human rights are a relatively new thing for someone who is locked inside a cave for several decades. Unlike crazies he does have some sort of power to back up his views.
Currently he is immersed in impossible shapes and the applications of perpetual motion, both to be implemented in clockwork.
leeching, trepanation, lobotomy and bloodletting. Old fashioned medicine for an old fashioned man, during the days before paper Ulther liked to experiment in new sciences. What interested him is what Hippocrates advertised, which is also the world's second oldest surgical procedure after procedure. It is a hobby he calls trepanation, he likes making burr holes. Treating head wounds, liberating demons from the possessed to curing meningitis to epilepsy.
He would use Abelith to emulate a trepan in order to make the hole, going into the skull and removing a chunk of the skull. Skin will heal over a small bump, some of his peers even tell him of the ages where the neoliths used sharpened stones as they show hom how to use cranked augers.
Somewhat similar to bloodletting. At times he even went to seminars by Dr. Bart Hughes. Who bored a hole in his own skull using an electric drill, a scalpel, and a hypodermic needle (to administer a local anesthetic).
After finding out a new look in orientation he has been known to flirting with Government central computers, sometimes causing them to crash. He is a devil when it comes to smooth talking his way into the heart of an AI program. His magnetic personality can somehow seduce things such as planetary artificial intelligence computers and beyond.
It gets tragic when they realize Ulther doesn't love it, it tends to self destruct. Any form of communication will inevitable turns into a type of love later on. It is as if they are run by magical energy. He makes them wonder if they are more than AI and actually have feelings for others.
Iron-Lord also has a minor form of technopathy, which he uses to erase AI recent memories with a kiss. In general it fits in these following elements.
* Issues of race, gender, and sexuality
* The nature of being human
* The dangers of one-sided, exploitative relationships
* The evolution of women’s independence
Abilities: Ulther collects several lifetimes worth of skills, some are recollected as muscle memory and they seem to help him in life. He is aware of his shortcomings of being a revenir coupled with a certain characteristic from the metal slug, however he cover it up with overwhelming ferocity in combat. Defending himself with unparalleled ferocity to hide his weaknesses.
He met this guy who goes by the name of Sawyer, who is a great swordsman who manages to separate his pinkie and nearly disemboweled him with a slash to the stomach. He has plenty in the speed and power department, but all that raw power is backed up by immaculate skill. With a style that is very direct and fierce it was fortunate that Ulther had a revenir body to lean on, if he were that of a human then he would enter the cycle of rebirth and reincarnation yet again. Thankfully the revenir pulled out a victory in this one, thanks to terrain and a note from Sun Tzu's playbook. Should they meet again the cyborg would be a different animal, learning and adapting to an even greater fighter.
Powers
Most of Ulther's special attacks make use spikes protruding over his body. He can also summon the symbiote as part of one of his Super Combos. Ulther is also a master swordsman; he has a sword [a giant sword construct and the ability to charge it with energy to increase its cutting power.] hidden within/on his body, which he uses as part of his Meteor Combo.
Iron, specifically cold iron, would repel witches, warlocks, spirits, demons, devils, and otherwise wicked or dark spirits.. It was regarded as a magical substance because it could withstand both the elements of fire and a deep freeze of the cold, and because it was still harder than most if not all metals at the time.
What became unpredictable is the blades on the heels of Ulther’s shoes, which he uses to viciously cut up his opponents; usually slicing their necks open. By integrating his arms with bolts, Ulther is able to create various torture instruments such as spike-seated chairs, guillotines, and knee breakers.
The metal slug is said to have characteristics of both a serpent and a mollusc. It has an enormous shell and a long, flexible and boneless body. It secreted a sticky slime from its body. Its gaping mouth was surrounded by long, hairy, slimy tentacles that it would stretch out for miles from its lair to find food.
The as-yet-unnamed creature bears a mass of interlocking, iron-based plates on its body and the base of its foot. Like a suit of medieval armor, the snail may use its metal scales as a defense against predatory attack.
The exoskeleton is made of a hard unknown substance which is controlled mentally by Abelith. It can mentally reform the exoskeleton to virtually any shape [can shape the metal casing into various things, such as a giant spear] and increase the mass although it is unknown where the extra mass comes from. Any harm to the exoskeleton is felt by Abelith since they are linked. It also hovers and can fly through the air through an unknown propulsion force or anti-gravity equipment. Abelith is an expert at surviving in any habitat [by creating sharp protrusions and spinning at high speeds, Abelith can attack all individuals in striking distance].
The teeth of the Metal Slug contain biomineralized magnetite crystallites whose biological functions in relation to structure and magnetic properties are not well understood
With this entity he can become like a snail at will. By lying down on his stomach and curling his legs up so that both feet rest on his shoulder blades. Then bringing both hands back into fists which are held to either side of the head, with index fingers pointing out. In this mode, not only can he slide across the ground (at about one foot per second) but his legs become indestructible. However, you won't leave a slimy trail. It is notable that wherever you look, your fingers will point.
Ulther want to incorporate those energies, he wants to embody those energies and to display the super powers of those energies. In order to sustain a entity possession a person has to have a lot of energy.
The esoteric disciplines of raising one's own energy level or body vibe - i.e. building the shen body (Chinese), the Merkavah vehicle (Q'a Ba' al ah), building chakrahs etc will only get the adept so far in terms of personal power.
Revenir are undead beings granted sentience by a unknown force. A revenir appears much as it did in life, yet paler and more sullen. Their eyes may appear clouded and life-less and there may even be evidence of how they died; garish wounds that refuse to heal, yet cause no pain or hindrance. Revenir are rare.
The Revenir, traditionally retains a great deal of its old dexterity and intellect and is free willed, having returned from death to achieve some significant purpose. It anchors a soul to the physical world, giving it partial substance in place of a body. And in his case it replaces the usual link between body and soul with an artificial, immortal one.
Revenir usually have all of the usual undead resistances and may be generally supernaturally resilient - some may decay normally, or be otherwise time limited, he is not. Generally chopping him to pieces works as well as it does for anything else, but he has the capability to continue animating severed body parts or to skip into any handy corpse meaning that he take a lot more killing and/or magic to get rid of.
Ulther constantly draws upon his MP to hold himself together, with the side effect of constant, intense pain (which doesn't seem to bother him). He also uses this ability to pull himself back together when wounded, making him very, very hard to kill.
It is a type of sustained life that is often described as "unnatural", and according to the church and its abrahamic counterparts, it should not be. When someone with a religious role says it is time for someone's unnatural life to end, that "everything"** has its time and "everything"** dies (in the context of commenting on some character's immortality), you can be sure it is his type.
On the other hand, this force renders many normally important functions of the living body irrelevant. Undead suffer virtually no effects from aging, hunger, poison, extreme cold, and mind-affecting agents.
Weakness: Salt [Rock Salt Shotgun Shells], Healing magic, Resurrection magic
Bacchus. A loyal steed from his past life that has returned to him after the Iron-Blood ritual, it remains by his side and is summoned by his breath. A willowy whisp that emanated from the cloy of his undeath, it is his means of transport and it accommodates his range of powers. On empty days it remains as an extra set of legs, yet on bad nights it can stand as a harbinger of death and a harvester of corpses. Don't let the look fool you, Bacchus is a cursed mount and even during life thieves have ended with their abilities disabled because of accidents.
Literally causes "calamities", perhaps by expanding natural, microscopic stress fractures in objects, thereby causing them to break. And the power to cause bad luck both physically or mentally to those around him. His bad luck effects both the animate and inanimate objects. It appears he has no control over this effect. Its mane, tail, and hooves burn of spectral flame When Bacchus stomps along, he leaves fiery hoofprints in its wake.
Reanim8, a drug made from a formula found in the Hermit's journal. When given to corpses it gives them a second shot in life, however in the hands of a revenir such drug is used to stabilize or even 'enhance' his bodily constitution. It is equivalent to man's performance enhancing drugs, however it is fatal for mortals hence why he designed the syringe with a skeleton design so that people can identify the shapes with 'danger'
However, certain people mistook this for an immortality inducer and ended up with mixed results. In such cases they have to make the antidote, sadly such page had been ripped off by the old man in the hut. What remains is a very bad compound for anything that wishes to remain 'alive' in a mortal sense.
A journal of occult lore bounded by an imaginary composite of his own design, it contains rites and peculiarities but it does not contain any form of active spells. It is mostly a pictorial book with graphs and info-graphs instead of alphabets.
In terms of peculiarities it does not possess any kind of cures or 'offensive' magic, however it provides a vast resource for boons and transformative types of magic. It is often erroneously referred as 'black' magic by conservative magicians but it provides an insight into unearthly realms. In terms of quality this can be compared to a grimoire.
Coffin Bed. It is not necessary at all to have one of these unbreakable stone tombs but it serves a reminder and a cold comfort whenever he is feeling at rest. Keeping the entire body working by will can get taxing and this is good for recuperating energies. It can be summoned from any surface, whether on the ground or upright from the walls like sarcophagi.
Maintenance is essential to prevent the grow of moss, and te coffin lid on certain days can be heated up to provide a source of entertainment.
Iron Lord Tokens. It's his equivalent to cucumbers to moisten eyes and it is also a courtesy for the dead to pay the fee for the ferryman to cross the river of the dead. He would use this in magical exchange as a symbol of his bargaining power, also they can be used in rituals to replace mana or basic energy pre-requisites.
Originally they stared as chunks of Abelith's discarded scales but later on he used converted coins imbued with plasmic energies from the Metal Slug.
It can be earned for those that have defeated him as well, a good analogy would be the tokens earned in a videogame after slaying an npc opponent, the drop rate is average. Three to five depending on the quality of the win, most likely on the lower end of the margin.
His heart ticks and tocks, it does not beat. Being undeath the idea of alteration does not scare him at all, since he had Abelith and Bacchus inside him he decide 'why not?'. It is his process of rediscovering himself, many of the other mortals dabble in silicone or saline so he decides to use copper.A unique thing about this contraption is that it will NOT stop.
Listen to his chest and the clacking of gears can be heard as it regulates ochre. He has a thing for Clockpunk [springs and clockwork, based on Renaissance and Victorian-era designs] genre, he has a natural affinity for mechanisms, Including: Coupling, Centrifugal Governor, Clockwork, Universal Joint, Interrupter Gear, Rube Goldberg Machine, Differential (Mechanical Device), Windlass, Winch, Gimbal, Governor (Device), Ratchet (Device), Anti-Twister Mechanism, Strapdown.
Wayfinder. Originally an average sundial the wayfinder is now linked with his heart, it moves with every ticking of the perpetual engine. Alternatively it can be used normally to keep a track of time during the day, the time is then memorized and the heart adjusts the shadow to move accordingly. In certain cases it can also be used as a compass to find directions in case he needs to be somewhere in a hurry.
Coupled with his enlightened senses he can use the 'shadows' to trace hostiles within the are. The minuscule pointer can also be used as a stabbing implement.
Carpenter
It is a fighting method developed first after his reemergence from the cave, realizing that the conventional fighting methods for humans will be useless against certain types of opponents with a different anatomy he devised a style based on feeling. Gut feelings, and hunches are honed to a point where they can compensate for lack of reflexes while keeping everything flowing all at once. It can be compared to a dance of sorts, one that involves certain advantages bestowed by his unconventional anatomy. Misdirection is a central plot of the style as the confusion of foes are quickly turned into despair. Sacrificing some aspects of common sense it advocates that one may cast away a limb to take away a life, getting hurt in the process of getting better. Putting every move, even when taking damage to inflict equal or greater amount at every given time. The goal is 'erosion' of the enemy, and it may be gradual or time consuming but everything adds up to a devastating conclusion. The use of his body as 'bait' while he sets up the 'hooks' is also a staple of this art, as it turns his entire body into a minefield of sorts. Feinting openings and drawing them inside with generated opportunities, the alternative name is 'trap fighting'.
He likes to have huge spikes on his fists, knees and elbows, the elbow spike can retract into the forearm and come out the palm and serve as a weapon. Opponents are often covered in bloody holes from every attack Ulther unleashed. Every time he punches or kicks them he'd be stabbing/slashing them.
Not suggested for anyone without fast recovery abilities.
Grid Points
- A|6: Abelith helps
- D|3: Willpower
- EP|5: He is to metal what Iceman is to ice
- FA|4: Remembers a past life spent in combat
- I|4: Great tutor for academics
- MP|5: Hermit's Journal & Revenir
- S|5: Broke human bodily limits
- S|7: Abelith & Bacchus
- S|5: Broke human bodily limits
Factoids
- The blood is pink
- Power: Blades
- proficient in MAIMING, MUTILATING, DISFIGURING, PARALYZING and CRIPPLING techniques
- Hobbies include Botany (Study of Plants): Each region will contain various kinds of plants to be documented for the book. Depending on the region, there will also be about 30-100 different types of plants in each region to be documented.
- Pedals stationary bike to charge car batteries. Riding a stationary bikes hooked up to converted car batteries that are used to illuminate town squares.
- Robosexuality referred to attraction or sexual behavior between a humanoid and a robot. The way it works is more akin to interracial relationships.
- Rippled plates of metal replace the left side of his ribcage from his arm down to his stomach.
- Left jaw, teeth, cheekbone, and part of skull were shattered and replaced with black metal. Skin covers the metal bones in his face.
- possesses super-reading and super-healthy snacking powers
- Fond of crucifixion